superchiral

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adjective

(of a field) having chiral density much higher than circularly polarized light, particularly with respect to ultrasensitive detection

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Meanings

adjectivesuperchiral (not comparable)
  1. not comparablemathematics(of a field) having chiral density much higher than circularly polarized light, particularly with respect to ultrasensitive detection

    In the close vicinity of a chiral nanostructure, the circular dichroism of a biomolecule could be greatly enhanced, due to the interaction with the local superchiral fields.

    2016, S. Hamed Shams Mousavi, Sajanlal R. Panikkanvalappil, Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Ali A. Eftekhar, Ali Adibi, “Large Enhancement of Circular Dichroism Using an Embossed Chiral Metamaterial”, in arXiv

Origin

From super- + chiral.

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